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| Source: Millennial 20/20. |
“Times are rapidly changing and the millennial generation already has an active role in reshaping our commerce marketplace. The Millennial 20/20 Summit will ignite the conversations that are paramount to help brands and businesses adapt and stay relevant in one of society’s most influential movements,” said Rupa Ganatra, Founding Partner, Millennial 20/20.
With its global connectivity and resources for business innovation, Singapore will be the first city in Asia and second in the world to host the summit. This year’s edition will gather more than 1,500 brands, companies, founders and startups to look into the future of commerce from across the four key industry sectors of travel and hospitality, food and beverage, fitness and sport and fashion and beauty.
“Singapore with its robust infrastructure, communities and innovation capabilities makes it a natural choice for us to launch the Millennial 20/20 Summit. Its progressive environment for innovation has led it to be a leading player in disruptive technology as most businesses embrace ways to co-innovate with the technology industry to reach the next stage of growth,” added Simon Berger, Founding Partner, Millennial 20/20.
Discussions for the summit will centre around the evolving business landscape in a millennial generation where innovation, disruption and technology are key components of its future. The summit focuses on pillars such as retail, marketing, mobile, payments, video, social, e-commerce, customer relationship management (CRM), advertising and big data. The topics are aligned with Singapore’s vision of embracing technological innovations and enterprise to transform its economy of the future.
Each of the industry tracks feature a distinguished speaker panel of local and international industry heavyweights such as Mark Liversidge, Chief Marketer of Hilton Hotels; Tom Glick, Chief Commercial Officer of City Football; Elaine Rodrigo, Global Director of Mondelez; Victor Ciu, CEO of One Championship; Aseem Puri, Chief Marketing Officer of Unilever; Clarence Chew, Chief Marketing Officer of Decathlon; Magnus Grimeland, Managing Director and Co-Founder of Zalora Global Fashion Group; Alexis Horowitz-Burdick, Managing Director of Sephora Digital; Cheryl Goh, Vice President of Marketing, GRAB; Deepesh Trivedi, Head of Retail & Ecommerce, Facebook; Fergus O'Hare, Head of Creative Shop APAC, Instagram and James Rothwell, Director Of Marketing - Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Netflix.
Session topic highlights include:
Selling Real Value: Building brands in an ad-free world
“What do they really want?” Talking to the next-gen consumer, fan and ambassador online and offline
Rewire & Rethink: The hotel proposition for the 21st century traveller
Winning in a Billion Dollar Industry without landing a punch;
New Spirit of Innovation transforming the Space Tourism industry;
21st Century football fans – Mobile. Digital. Global: Driving innovation on and off the pitch; and Delivery 2.0: Changing Food Consumption Habits and the Business Models that are disrupting it.
Another highlight of the summit will be an experiential showcase of a ‘store of the future’ presented by headline partner Accenture. Featuring The World of ME, the inspirational playground for consumers will give visitors the opportunity to immerse themselves in innovative products, services and experiences; co-create and test ideas, and participate in live events.
Unilever, one of the world’s leading suppliers of fast-moving consumer goods, is collaborating with Millennial 20/20 to surface the most innovative startups in this space. Up to 25 startup companies which have developed truly innovative technology in future of retail, future of media, brand and content innovation, social impact and data, insights and personalisation, will be handpicked to be part of the Unilever Foundry’s Startup Street. The selected startups will be given the opportunity to ‘speed-date’ with Unilever’s marketing leaders.
Millennial 20/20 will also feature 20 showcase exhibitors including Dynamic Yield, which optimises yield across channels and enables real-time personalisation; StoryStream, a live content management provider; and fraud management provider Cash Shield. Digital experience providers will include Baozun, a digital and e-commerce service partner in China, Spotify for Brands, as well as BrandTone, which helps to grow brands. Happy Marketer, a digital experience specialist, and Sizmek, and advertising technology company that was just acquired by Vector Capital, will also be at the event. Other highlighted exhibitors include Carpal, a same-day delivery courier; Agility Research, a full service research and consulting company with a core focus on the affluent and luxury consumer; and What3Words, representing a new way to communicate location,
Interested?
The event will be held at the ArtScience Museum in Singapore from 9am on September 7 to 5pm on September 8. An early bird access pass costs S$400. Registration is open to the public.
